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US Justice Department seizes website of prolific ransomware gang Hive
According to United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray on Jan. 26, international law enforcement groups have dismantled the infamous Hive cryptocurrency ransomware gang. ...
Google to Face Fresh Lawsuit from US Department of Justice
Tech giants including Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Apple are also being grilled for their acquisition of smaller rivals in a bid to squash out competition. The United States Department of Justice (DoJ)...
BTC Beats Top Banking Giants In Market Cap Department
Bitcoin continues to push the cryptocurrency industry toward widespread acceptance on a worldwide scale, engaging directly with big traditional entities such as banks. The crypto’s remarkable market c...
Justice Department sues Google to break up its advertising empire
The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Tuesday, seeking the breakup of the company’s online ad business. This latest action co...
Beijing Department Store Wangfujing Opens In Hainan In Time To Cash In On Chinese New Year
Wangfujing’s first duty-free store has opened in Wannning City, Hainan, China. Wangfujing Group Department store retailer Wangfujing has opened its first store in Hainan, the duty-free shopping ...
Binance implicated in Bitzlato US Justice Department prosecution
On Wednesday, the U.S. authorities accused the little-known cryptocurrency exchange, Bitzlato, of laundering $700 million and named Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, as a counterpart...
The Department of Justice charges the founder of Bitzlato with the unlicensed money transmitting
The US Department of Justice has arrested and charged Anatoly Legkodymov for transmitting money without any license. If convicted, Anatoly Legkodymov faces a prison time of up to 5 years. Bitzlato is ...
The US Department of Justice against crypto- The Cryptonomist
Yesterday the US Department of Justice, i.e., the US ministry that is responsible for justice, released an announcement regarding a major international action in the crypto sector. The announcement w...
Summary of 18th January’s Department of Justice (DOJ) conference from a Crypto perspective – Cryptopolitan
The cryptocurrency industry has grown massively in the last few years to the extent that lawmakers and government watchdogs around the world are seriously concerned about its negative effect on the wo...
Justice Department Declined Using FBI For Biden Document Search, Report Says
Topline The Justice Department recently decided against calling in FBI agents to monitor searches of President Joe Biden’s homes for classified documents, according to the Wall Street Journal, after r...
Samsung Knocks Longtime Patent Leader IBM Off Its Perch
In a year when the U.S. issued the smallest number of patents since 2018, Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics nosed past IBM with the most new patents, the first time in 29 years that IBM fai...
Exxon Mobil Stock Should Shine, Even in a Recession
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
BP and Shell vs. Exxon and Chevron: The Mystery of Big Oil’s P/E Gap
Last year, global oil companies boomed. BP and Shell both based in London, saw share prices rise some 40% in 2022 and trade at five times forward earnings. U.S.-based Exxon Mobil soared nearly 80% and...
AJ Foyt Racing Revamps Its IndyCar Engineering Department
Roberto Garcia, Michael Cannon & Daniele Cucchiaroni look over engineering data at AJ Foyt Racing AJ Foyt Racing Photo AJ Foyt Racing is hoping Michael Cannon can elevate the IndyCar team back the...
FTX Linked Robinhood Shares Worth $460 Million To Be Seized By U.S. Justice Department
The United States Department of Justice is now stepping in to take control of matters in the ongoing brouhaha involving the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX and other parties. The DOJ is now working on...
US Department of Justice To Seize FTX’s $465 Million in Robinhood Shares
In a Delaware bankruptcy court proceeding, the US Justice Department declared that it had captured custodial rights of $450 million in Robinhood shares from FTX. Prosecutors publically stated in a pro...
ChatGPT Likes Our Robot Story
To the Editor:I was going to write you a letter about your cover story (“Robots Are Replacing Workers Lost in the Pandemic. They’re Here to Stay.”, Dec. 23) when I thought I would just let ChatGPT wri...
An Oil ETF Outpaced Crude by 5 Times Last Year. The Downside: Volatility.
Shares of the U.S. Oil exchange-traded fund surged 5.2% in the week before Christmas, and ended up 27% for the year. Oil prices did rise last year by nearly 5%, but how did an ETF that tracks them out...
AMD Stock Should Benefit From Next-Generation Computer Chips
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
US Department of Justice Investigating Massive FTX Hack: Report
The United States Department of Justice is investigating the hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency taken in unauthorized transactions from collapsed exchange FTX, according to a rep...
Scammers impersonate US State Department, claiming to help affected FTX users
With the FTX collapse leaving many users yearning for the return of lost funds, scammers are using the opportunity to take advantage of already injured victims by posing as government officials. In a...
US Department of Justice probing $372M FTX exploit: Report
According to a Dec. 27 Bloomberg report, the United States Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the whereabouts of approximately $372 million in missing digital assets from now-def...
A Reckoning for Crypto and FTX
To the Editor:I’ve been hoping for some sort of catalyst that would implode the crypto market, and it has finally happened (“The Crypto Ice Age Is Here. What’s Ahead for Bitcoin and the Stocks,” Dec. ...
Meme Token Dogecoin Edges Past Coinbase. It’s Been That Kind of Year in Crypto.
Coinbase Global went public in 2021, with a debut valuation of a snappy $85 billion. This year hasn’t been exactly bountiful for the U.S.-based online crypto broker, with rising interest rates hitting...
Bed Bath & Beyond Ponders Bankruptcy, Exciting the Meme Crowd
What were shareholders thinking? Shares of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond zoomed 179%, to $3.49 this past week, despite the retailer warning of a possible bankruptcy. One explanation: Meme stock mania...